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OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

Risposta alle opposizioni del s. Lodovico delle Colombe, e del s. Vincenzio de Grazia, contro al trattato del sig. Galileo Galilei, delle cose che stanno su l'acqua, o che in quella si muouono. All'illvstriss. sig. Enea Piccolomini Aragona, signore de St
Numerous errors in pagination., Preface signed: Benedetto Castelli.
United States exploring expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842
v. 1-5. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition during the years 1838-42 / by Charles Wilkes. 1845 -- v. 10. Geology / by James D. Dana. 1849 -- v. 17. Botany : Cryptogamia ; Musci / by William S. Sullivant ; Lichenes / by Edward Tuckerman ; Algae / by J.W. Bailey and W.H. Harvey ; Fungi / by M.A. Curtis and M.J. Berkeley ; Phanerogamia of Pacific North America / by John Torrey ; ed. by Asa Gray. 1874., under the command of Charles Wilkes., v. 10, Atlas, has imprint: New York : G.P. Putnam ; London : Putnam's American Agency, [n.d.]., Published under act of Congress of Aug. 26, 1842, which provided: "That there shall be published ... an account of the discoveries made by the Exploring expedition under the command of Lieutenant Wilkes ... which account shall be ... published in a form similar to the voyage of the Astrolabe, lately published by the government of France.", By the same act, the edition was limited to 100 copies. Mr. Wilkes, however, secured copyright on his Narrative of the expedition, under which privilege he published several editions of that part of the reports. Later, also, the authors themselves, or publishers who might be willing to undertake it, were allowed to issue an additional 150 copies of most of the various reports, and under this arrangement, from 100 to 150 copies of most of the volumes were published in addition to the 100 copies provided for by the government. The official edition however was 100 copies only., The publication was never completed. Five volumes are unpublished: v. 18, Botany / by Asa Gray; v. 19, Geographical distribution of animals and plants / by Charles Pickering; v. 21-22, Ichthyology / by Louis Agassiz; v. 24, Physics / by Charles Wilkes., Volumes of unfinished plates--some of them in proof before lettering--are found, without t.p. or other printed matter. The Library of Congress has two such volumes: one of 71 pl. (4 col.) from the atlases to Botany, and one of 32 col. pl., 28 of which belong to the unpublished v. 21-11, Icthyology, and 4 to v. 12, Mollusca and shells., v. 10 book plate: Ex libris Herbert McLean Evans
The life of Ellen H. Richards
by Caroline L. Hunt.
Vollständiger himmels Atlas für Freunde und Liebhaber der Sternkunde nach den vorzüglichsten Hilfsquellen und eigenen Beobachtungen gezeichnet.
Works.
ex nova Ioannis Serrani interpretatione, perpetuis eiusde[m] notis illustrata : quibus & methodus & doctrinæ summa breuiter & perspicuè indicatur. Eiusdem annotationes in quosdam suæ illius interpretationis locos ; Henr. Stephani de quorundam locorum interpretatione iudicium, & multorum contextus græci emendatio., Printer's mark on t.p. of t.1., First four words of title transliterated from the Greek., Greek and Latin in parallel columns., T. 2 and 3 have half-title only., T. 2 and 3 bound together., Head- and tail-pieces., Handwritten notes throughout text., Includes index.
Nicolai Stenonis de solido intra solidvm natvraliter contento dissertationis prodromvs.
Title page in red and black.
De stella nova in pede Serpentarii
et qui sub ejus exortum de novo iniit, trigono igneo. Libellus astronomicis, physicis, metaphysicus, meteorologicis & astrologicis disputationibus ... plenus. Accesserunt I. De stella incognita Cygni: narratio astronomica. II. De Jesv Christi Servatoris vero anno natalitio, consideratio novissim sententi Lavrentii Svslyg Poloni, quatuor annos in usitata epocha desiderantis., Parts [2]-[4] each have special t.-p.; part [1]-[3] paged continuously., Part [3] has imprint: Francofvrti, 1606; part [4] has imprint: Francofvrti, W. Richteri, 1606., Signatures: )?(A-CcDdA-E(E blank)
Bibliography of meteorology. A classed catalogue of the printed literature of meteorology from the origin of printing to the close of 1881; with a supplement to the close of 1887, and an author index.
pt. 1. Temperature.--pt. 2. Moisture.--pt. 3. Winds.--pt. 4. Storms., Prepared under the direction of Brigadier General A. W. Greely ... Edited by Oliver L. Fassig., Copy 2 gift of the Ronald C. Taylor Collection., Copy 2 donated by Ming-Ying Wei and David K. Taylor., At head of title: United States of America : War dept., Only t.-p. and introduction are printed ; the body of the work is lithographed., Parts 3-4 include supplement to close of 1889., About 60,000 titles, representing some 13,000 authors.
Della fisonomia di tutto il corpo humano del s. Gio. Battista della Porta libri quattro, ne' quali si tratta di quanto intorno a questa materia n'hanno i Greci, Latini, e gli Arabi scritto.
Hora brevemente in tavole sinottiche ridotta et ordinata da Francesco Stelluti., Engraved t. p.
Klaudiou Ptolemaiou harmoniko vivlia iii Klaudii Ptolemi Harmonicorum libri tres.
Ex cod. mss. vndecim, nunc primum grce editus. Johannes Wallis ... recensuit, edidit, versione & notis illustravit, & auctarium adjecit., Title vignette., Appendix: De veterum harmonica ad Hodiernam comparata: p. 281-328.
Historia plantarum; species hactenus editas aliasque insuper multas noviter inventas & descriptas complectens. In qua agitur primo de plantis in genere, earumque partibus, accidentibus & differentiis; deinde genera omnia tum summa tum subalterna ad speci
Auctore, Joanne Raio., tom. 1-2 paged continuously; tom. 1: [26], 983 p.; tom. 2: [8], 985-1944, [35] p., Paging irregular; various repetitions in numbering., tom. 3 published by S. Smith & B. Walford., v. 2 has title: Joannis Raii Histori plantarum tomus secundus: cum duplici indice; generali altero nominum & synonymorum prcipuorum; altero affectuum & remediorum: accessit nomenclator botanicus anglo-latinus., v. 3 has title: Joannis Raii ... Histori plantarum tomus tertius: qui est supplementum duorum prcedentium: species omnes vel omissas, vel post volumina illa evulgata editas, prter innumeras fere novas & indictas ab amicis communicatas complectens: cum synonymis necessariis, et usibus in cibo, medicina, & mechanicis: addito ad opus consummandum generum indice copioso. Accessit Historia stirpium ins. Luzonis & reliquarum Philippinarum a R. P. Geo. Jos. Camello ... item D. Jos. Pitton Tournefort ... Corollarium institutionum rei harbari.
Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri extinct monsters of the ancient earth : with twenty-eight plates copied from specimens in the author's collection of fossil organic remains
by Thomas Hawkins., Subscription list: p. [3].